David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing staff is usually a combination of two kinds of people - experts in the world the show is set in, and young writers who will not be unhappy if they're not writing scripts.
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If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?'
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
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I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.
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She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.
